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'Windows is evolving into an agentic OS' says Windows president in what I can only assume is a bid to make me swap to Linux (www.pcgamer.com)

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Pavan Davuluri, the president of Windows and devices at Microsoft, recently took to X to share their feelings on the future of the OS (as spotted by Tom's Hardware). "Windows is evolving into an agentic OS, connecting devices, cloud, and AI to unlock intelligent productivity and secure work anywhere."

If that phrase reads to you like someone has thrown a dart at a board filled with LinkedIn buzzwords, you're not alone. Effectively, an agentic AI is one that can run autonomously, without the need to check back in on each step of the process.

If you ask a standard non-agentic AI to make you a poem, it can. If you ask that same AI to set up supply chains, adjusting stock and employees in real-time, based on information fed to it, it can't do it .

So, in this sense, Windows as an agentic AI is one that is designed to run automations daily to lighten the productivity load. However, I can't help but wonder who wants that out of their OS?

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[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 34 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's called a daemon. Which makes it an demonic operating system.

[–] ephemeral@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

man, tech nerd lingo used to be so much cooler

[–] Fossifoo@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It still is. Under Linux you get to run (and kill, if you wish) daemons all the time.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Beastie the BSD Daemon

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[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago

Which is what Windows definitely is, in a much more traditional sense of the term.